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  • We lay four days in Menado, at the north-eastern extremity of the island of Celebes.

    Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

  • One had been left at Tondano with fever and diarrhoea, and the other was attacked at Langówan with inflammation of the chest, and as his case looked rather bad I had him sent back to Menado.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • I reached Menado on the 10th of June, 1859, and was very kindly received by Mr. Tower, an Englishman, but a very old resident in Menado, where he carries on a general business.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Of this animal I had seen two living specimens at Menado, and was surprised at their great resemblance to small cattle, or still more to the

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Up to a very recent period these people were thorough savages, and there are persons now living in Menado who remember a state of things identical with that described by the writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Menado, and stayed a month in the town in a small house which I hired for the sake of assorting and packing up a large and varied collection which I had brought with me from North Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Mr. Neys, a native of Menado, but who was educated at Calcutta, and to whom Dutch, English, and Malay were equally mother-tongues.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • A few days afterwards I returned to Menado on horse-back, sending my baggage around by sea; and had just time to pack up all my collections to go by the next mail steamer to Amboyna.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • We then crossed over to Menado, on our way to Macassar and Java, and I finally quitted the Moluccas, among whose luxuriant and beautiful islands I had wandered for more than three years.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • After a time, roads were made from the port of Menado up to the plateau, and smaller paths were cleared from village to village; missionaries settled in the more populous districts and opened schools; and Chinese traders penetrated to the interior and supplied clothing and other luxuries in exchange for the money which the sale of the coffee had produced.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

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